The Attorney General Dresden is investigating Maximilian Krah AfD member of the Bundestag. A corresponding investigation was initiated on Thursday, the FAZ authority confirmed on request. It is about the allegations of bribery as a member of a member of the EU Parliament and money laundering in connection with Chinese payments. “The Attorney General Dresden sees sufficient factual indications, which, according to criminal experience, make it appear possible that there is a persecuted crime.” The presumption of innocence continues.
In the focus of the investigation, however, the payments of a very specific client are likely to be on him: Krah represented his former assistant in the EU Parliament, Jian G. He is charged with espionage. The German citizen is said to be an employee of a Chinese secret service since 2002. During his time in Krah's member of parliament from 2019 until his arrest in 2024, he is said to have collected information and material for the Chinese service about the work of the EU Parliament. The subject of the investigation could also be what connections Krah itself has to China.
Charges against Krah have not yet been raised. In the course of the announcement that it is now being investigated, the Dresden General Prosecutor also said that pre -investigative proceedings against Krah would continue to be pending in connection with alleged Russian payments.
